Capt. Storm #11

The February 1966 issue of Capt. Storm delivers a gut-punch of a cover by Irv Novick, showing the wooden-legged P.T. boat skipper locked in a desperate mid-ocean struggle with a Japanese pilot, both men grappling fiercely amid churning waves with a torpedo visible nearby. The cover's own text sets the stakes perfectly: the only way Storm could hit his target was to give the command for his own death — teased in the story title "Ride a Hot Torpedo!" Robert Kanigher's writing and Novick's kinetic linework made this series one of DC's most viscerally gripping war titles of the mid-sixties, and this issue looks like a prime example of why.